badger and a london fete
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'The Badger' and 'a London Fete' are two poems, which I have been studying. Both of them are pre 1914 poetry and voice the opinions of the poets on different matters.
'The Badger' is written by John Clare, the poem describes a badger doing what it usually does minding its own business in the woodlands, it is suddenly chased by poachers who force it into town where it is baited and has to fight many dogs, towards the end of the poem the badger blacks out and dies.
The poet is trying to get his message across that the people were very barbaric in the sense of how they treated the badger. i.e. the badger was 'Kicked by boys and men'.
At the end he lies 'torn and beaten'.
John Clare tries to make the reader feel sorry for the badger because of its ill treatment; it also shows that the badger is a determined and good fighter,
'He fights with dogs for hours and beats them all'
'The bulldog knows his match'
The poem has interesting features of a structural design because it has five stanzas in which four of them have a regular number of lines; the fourth stanza has two lines less than the other stanzas.
The poet's choice of words are effective because they keep the poem moving at a constant speed, but on the other hand the poets choice of words are not appropriate for the subject, he should have used striking words for they would have a bigger impact on the reader...